Early English Tobacco Trade

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  • Name Taxation inc customs, excise, stamp duties, etc: imposition & impact
  • Name Legislation & regulation exc h&s & competition policy
  • Name Consumption, consumerism & associated ethics

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Early text focusing on internal and export trading in tobacco and on tobacco growing in England. Has chapters: ''Discovery and spread of tobacco [consumption]'; 'Introduction into England'; 'Home trade in tobacco' including regulation under James I and Charles I; 'Tobacco growing in England'; 'Suppression of English planting'; 'The colonial trade' including Virginia; 'The foreign trade in tobacco' - Spain, Netherlands, Russia